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WikiLeaks Sudbury

Bigger… Politically Corrupt
or Bankrupt, and both????

WiKiLeaks Sudbury

When Bigger took municipal office,
he promised to run an accountable
and transparent municipal
administration. However, Bigger failed to eliminate corrupt
officials from the City hall. They were strategically
infiltrated into Bigger administration. He promoted and
treated them with extraordinary packages. City’s incompetent
administrators continually waste thousands of tax dollars.
Bigger is failed to address important issues for the Sudbury
taxpayers. Taxpayers are still on the hook with incompetent
administrators. Gravy train is running across the City hall.
WikiLeaks Sudbury release more information. Stay tuned...

Man
who wasted thousands of tax dollars finally has gone from the City
hall.
He tried many times and took any possible chances to extend his
contract. However, all of his attempts were unsuccessful. Benkovich
has become a symbol of incompetence and waste of tax dollars. He
contracted out water and wastewater emergency maintenance service
and scammed millions of tax dollars. Initially, the contract was
awarded for only $200,000.00, later on it wasincreased to over $ 1.5 million. However, Benkovich madesure to reimburse over $60,000 for his additional expenses
from tax dollars. Stay tuned more information to follow.

Incompetent
Fowke and Nepotism

Benkovich’s
corrupt practices are not limited to extending underhand contract
deals. In order to give his
son-in-law a post in the system, Benkovich fired one of the
employees from Whanapitate Water plant. Under Fowke’s watch,
Benkovich hired his son-in-law to fill the vacancy within 24 hours.
Former director of human resources division, Kevin Fowke, now is
City’s General Manager, failed to control these corrupt practices.
Sudbury tax payers were doomed and their sons and daughters were not
able to reach out any job opportunity in the City hall. Fowke
created a family business in City hall and now infiltrated into the
Bigger administration. His corrupt practices continue.

Millions
of dollars for Labour and employment external legal fees

Fowke is generous
to give away millions of tax dollars as legal fees for labor and
employment services.Fowke’s
department paid Sudbury based legal firm over 9 million dollars and
Toronto based legal firm another over million dollars.Under
his watch, labour and employment legal cost was sky rocketed. Large
amount of tax dollars wasted. Every year, City has owned legal
services department consumed over 1.5 million tax dollars which
consists of expenses for lawyers and support staff. Read
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Released on April 17, 2017
Tag # 700

Fired:
Canapini, no longer with the City

Canapini: Bad Legal advice

The
man behind the spending of millions of tax dollars for external
legal fees and the conspiracy to fire Ontario’s ombudsman is
finally gone. According to the Law Society of Upper Canada,
Canapini is no longer practicing law in Ontario.

Conspiracy

Canapini
is facing allegations of creating a false affidavit in an
attempt to prevent access to the freedom of information request.
That freedom of information request is directly related to water
and wastewater’s division, one of their service contracts. An
invoice was emailed to the director of the division Nick
Benkovich. Benkovich was generous enough to pay the contractor $
5600/h, costing the taxpayers.

Conspiracy
deepened: Bad legal advice

Sudbury’s
city council opted out the oversight service offered by the
Ontario ombudsman. Former Ontario ombudsman Andre Marin publicly
condemned Canapini’s involvement and said that Canapini had
given "bad legal advice." Read
More

Released on May 10, 2016 at 10:00 EDT
Tag # 687

Exposed: Fowke's conspiracy
against Bigger administration
Fowke should be thrown in jail for wilful blindness and
wasting millions of tax dollarsFowke
must be held accountable for the contract negotiations and the
labour relations mess in the fire services division, which
cost taxpayers over $ 800,000

The
city's embattled, incompetent Human Resources Director - Kevin
Fowke, has failed in his back door attempt to conquer the CAO
office. Soon after former CAO Doug Nadorozny was fired and
escorted out from the City hall, Fowke was appointed interim
CAO. Controversially, Bob Johnston, from the Sudbury Airport
Authority, was then selected as a preferred candidate for the
job.

Behind
the scenes, while Johnston tried to settle in at the City
hall, Fowke led corrupt bureaucrats in attempts to regain
their authority. Fowke utilized his old tactics and underhand
connections with other bureaucrats to discredit Johnston.
During the P6M project process, Bob Johnston was misguided by
Fowke and was provided information concerning labour relations
issues such as excessive overtime and absenteeism in the fire
services division. Fowke forced Johnston to address these
issues parallel to the P6M project. Addressing the labour
relations issues with P6M defeated the purpose of the project.
This controversial action triggered a very unsettling
situation with the Bigger administration. Johnston failed to
follow instructions from the Mayor and council by directly
addressing these issues before the council meeting. Read more

Released on January 10,
2016 (posted on February 29, 2016)
Tag # 686

Fowke: (de) Fraud,
corruption, incompetence and negligence

Playing golf using tax dollars

Hotel bill cost taxpayers $3,521.66
Bigger failure ..

City's interim CAO
Fowke, pocketed $12,245.14 tax dollars

As
Fowke expense scandal grows, why hasn’t Bigger cut off the money?

WikiLeaks
Sudburyuncovered
that the City's embattled interim CAO, Kevin Fowke, was reimbursed
$12,245.09 from tax dollars for his travelling expenses from 2012 to
2015. He collected this amount in addition to his annual salary of
$142,743.30 with $7,821.78 in benefits, totalling $150,565.08. The
necessity of such expenses to run the city’s business is
questionable.

Mayor Bigger and fellow
councillors are counting pennies to provide the best value for tax
dollars; meanwhile, the City’s senior managers are living in luxury
at the cost of taxpayers. All this while taxpayers struggle to make
ends meet. Read more

City
is heading for another admiration disaster under the direct watch of
interim CAO Fowke

Fowke
also serves as Director of Human Resources and Organizational
Development. According to the leaked
court documents from the Human Resources division , he admitted
his failure in managing the human resources issues in the City. In
order to be excused from the justice system, he said that "The
Respondents concede that there are significant workplace issues in
W/WW (water and wastewater) involving the Applicant and which required
resolution" Additionally,he
requested for another mechanism to address the issues. However, it can
be noted that, Fowke was not able to address any issues in the City.
Rather, he hired a lawyers from a Toronto-based legal firm to defend
the bureaucrats from their wrong doings. . Read more

Released
on November 19, 2015 at 23:00 EDT, Posted on December
10, 2015 @ 23:00 EDT
Tag #: 684

Feature

Released on April 17, 2017
Tag # 700

Fired: Canapini, no longer with the City

Canapini: Bad Legal advice

The
man behind the spending of millions of tax dollars for external
legal fees and the conspiracy to fire Ontario’s ombudsman is
finally gone. According to the Law Society of Upper Canada, Canapini
is no longer practicing law in Ontario.

Conspiracy

Canapini
is facing allegations of creating a false affidavit in an attempt to
prevent access to the freedom of information request. That freedom
of information request is directly related to water and
wastewater’s division, one of their service contracts. An invoice
was emailed to the director of the division Nick Benkovich.
Benkovich was generous enough to pay the contractor $ 5600/h,
costing the taxpayers.

Conspiracy
deepened: Bad legal advice

Sudbury’s
city council opted out the oversight service offered by the Ontario
ombudsman. Former Ontario ombudsman Andre Marin publicly condemned
Canapini’s involvement and said that Canapini had given "bad
legal advice."

The
City is among the poorest performing municipalities in the
Canada, according to the Civil Liberty Groups. The local government
has failed to streamline its regulations regarding business
practices. They have also engaged in reforms that have liberalized
the Sudbury economy and failed to increase its strength and
viability. The unemployment rate is higher than both the national
and Ontario average.

The
City is riddled with dishonesty as the bureaucrats are not immune to
private interests and corrupt administrators can bypass the
law. The complete control by the corrupt administration leaves no
room for a reform or an independent assessment of the City’s
actions by a civil society or the media. The permeation of informal
networks (mainly in the form of family relations), the lack of
avenues for political participation among Sudbury citizens and the
clientele’s relationship between interest groups supports the
continuation of this status quo.

Canapini
took full advantage of this situation and teamed up with the General
Manager of corporate services Kevin Fowke and the director of water
and wastewater services Nick Benkovich. All three were involved in
defrauding public funds through various contracts, such as external
legal services and water main break emergency repair contracts.
Despite Sudbury taxpayers paying the bill, there was no political
willingness to correct the situation.

Instead
of finding solution to issues raised by employees, Canapini
continuously tried to silence voices of those opposing the corrupt
regime. To support him, Benkovich conducted numerous discipline
inquiries, according to questions scripted by Fowke. Benkovich and
Fowke’s actions resulted in the termination of several city
employees. This has opened new avenue in the fight against
corruption at city hall.

Canapini
is now gone. However, Fowke and Benkovich are still hiding behind
veils of secrecy and are continuing their corrupt practices. Fowke
and Benkovich must be kicked out of city hall in order to complete a
full clean up.